The 20th Shanghai Auto Show officially kicked off on April 18. The show is the first major auto show of the year and an important platform to showcase new technologies and trends in the automotive industry. Sina Auto interviewed Li Wenguang, president of Huawei’s intelligent driving field, and had an in-depth exchange on the technical route, development direction and business model of autonomous driving.
Li Wenguang said that Huawei has chosen the autonomous driving technology route of multi-sensor fusion and collaboration, which has a higher ceiling and better experience compared to Tesla’s pure vision route. According to him, “We have also seen the Tesla FSD experience videos posted by Tesla users in North America on the web, and when combined with the experience and evaluation videos of our domestic users, our smart driving experience is significantly better than Tesla’s, even in more complex road scenarios in China, compared to simple roads in North America.”
According to Li Wenguang, autonomous driving provides a service, and whether users are willing to pay depends on whether the service can solve the user’s problems and whether the experience is good enough. He points out that there are two needs for autonomous driving: safety and time. As long as these two needs can be met, there will be market space.
Li Wenguang said that autonomous driving is currently at the L2+ stage, and will develop towards L3, L4 and even driverless in the future. He expects that high-speed scenes will be the first to achieve L3-level commercialization, and scenes such as parks and basements are more suitable for driverless. The urban scenario will have to be driven with confidence on fixed routes. In addition, the parking scenario is relatively simple, and this year Huawei aims to make users park with confidence.
Finally, Li Wenguang also answered the netizens’ concern: “Is L3 autonomous driving really coming?” He said that L3 autonomous driving also involves the development of many standards and regulations, but the technical capabilities to be prepared first, in high-speed scenarios on the application is also a matter of these two years.
On April 16, Huawei’s Advanced Intelligent Driving System ADS 2.0 was released, which will not rely on high precision maps to achieve advanced assisted driving, asking the M5 Advanced Intelligent Driving Edition to debut with Huawei ADS 2.0.
